Outstanding Summer Platter
A paid partnership.
When whanau call by you want to entertain with ease - our Outstanding Sumer Platter is designed for that! Mixing and matching these products from award-winning producers is your guarantee your platter will not only look great - but it will taste ‘outstanding’. What’s more, we’ve chosen a selection of goods made with aroha which are so delicious guests will think they came from your kitchen!
Serves a crowd
Take a selection of Outstanding Food Producer Awards medal-winning produce – we chose:
Proper Crisps Big Cut Purple & Gold
Kiki Seed Cracker Mix Sea Salt
Robbies Peach & Ginger Chutney
Pepler’s Plum ε Cardamom Paste
Woodlands’s Certified Organic Pōhutukawa Honey
Then match these five with other great Kiwi produce to fill out your platter. You add your favourites – we used:
Whipped NZ Feta Dip (recipe below)
Pepler’s Basil Pesto Mayonnaise
Rocket
Cured meat (such as local prosciutto, bresaola or coppa)
Thinly sliced fresh peach
Fresh Microgreens Pea shoots picked
Semi-hard cheese, very thinly sliced
Red Witloof (or red witloof or Belgian endive)
Whitestone Windsor Blue or Oamaru Blue
Whipped NZ Feta Dip
Makes 1 generous cup
150g creamy New Zealand Feta, crumbled
150g New Zealand crème fraiche
3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
2 very thin spring onions, finely sliced
a small handful of coriander leaves
finely grated zest of 1 small lemon
Method
Put the Feta, crème fraiche and 2 tablespoons olive oil in a small food processor and process until smooth. Season with salt, if needed.
Put into a dish or two small dishes, drizzle with the remaining olive oil and top with the spring onion, coriander and lemon zest.
Grab a Proper Hand Cooked Crisps Big Cut Purple & Gold Cracked Pepper & Sea Salt crisp and dig in!
